Los lunes al sol 2002

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: [De Aranoa is] a gentle, realist social worker, and the well-acted movie he's made to showcase his humanism is incredibly moving. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The best thing that can be said about this funny, poignant and compassionate film is that watching it is not work. Read more

Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: Bardem gives what might have been too slow and plodding a movie its heart and its humor. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: This slow, episodic film is held together by the galvanic presence of Javier Bardem. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Pulses with the star power of the extraordinary Javier Bardem. Read more

Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Alive with humanity and wit. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Mondays in the Sun has come to illustrate just how hard it is to do what Ken Loach and Laurent Cantet make seem so effortless. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Much like the lives it depicts, Mondays in the Sun is repetitious, uneventful and, in the end, dull. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: A cannily observant but withholding film in which nothing happens, over and again. Read more

Bob Campbell, Newark Star-Ledger: Shot in lustrous, muted color with a sure sensitivity to emotional states and mood swings, it's an elegy on wasted time and waning energies. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Though buoyed by excellent, unflinching performances, this melancholy drama reflects the dismally monotonous lives of its subjects just a little too well. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Mondays in the Sun is prodigiously uneventful, though its heart is in the right place. It would be easier to dismiss if it weren't. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It is intensely involving at the outset, but it faces an insoluble problem: The story, like the characters, has no place to go. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Midway, Mondays in the Sun becomes as dull as a day with nothing to do. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A small, intimate film that moves viewers with its passion. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: A quintessentially European, methodically paced and intelligent slice of life. Read more

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Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Perhaps too toothless for its subject. Read more